“Whorf’s logical weakness”
“Avoiding abstract terms was one way, Whorf thought, to avoid verbal problems; stressing activities over states was another” (8).
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“Whorf’s logical weakness”
“Avoiding abstract terms was one way, Whorf thought, to avoid verbal problems; stressing activities over states was another” (8).
“Correlation, connection, correspondence” (5)
“Trained as an engineer, Whorf had a hard-headed, mechanistic sense of causality and an impatient disregard for the metaphysical aspects of language” (4).
Berthoff, Ann E. “Sapir and the Two Tasks of Language.” Semiotica, vol. 71, no. 1/2, Sept. 1988, pp. 1-47.
Berthoff, A. (1996). Problem-dissolving by triadic means. College English, 58 ( 1), 9-2 1.
Wow. By this time, Berthoff has her spiel down to the bone:
“In a triadic semiotic, the meaning relationship is conceived as having three terms: the symbol (or representamen, as C.S. Peirce called it), its referent (or object), and the interpretant, Peirce’s term for the idea which mediates the representation and what it represents” (my emphasis).